I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Coimbatore) in Jul 2016
Interview
I applies through university and then got through from the first round.
First round- online. 20 mcqs and 4-5 programming questions.
Second round- Written test. 2 questions. paper and pen based.
Third round- consisted of 2-3 face to face technical rounds of questions. No hr questions at all.
The interview process was fine. I Don't know why i didn't make it.
I think they are looking for people with great technical knowledge.
Answer every question with great confidence DO NOT get confused no matter how much they try.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to find the minimum element from a stack with complexity O(constant)?
Difference between a process and a thread?
Questions related to Binary search tree- why? how?
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.